It was doubtless felt that if the public could be got to dislodge life, consciousness, and mind from any considerable part of the body, it would be no hard matter to dislodge it, presently, from the remainder; on this the deceptiveness of mind as a causative agent, and the sufficiency of a purely automatic conception of the universe, as of something that will work if a penny be dropped into the box, would be proved to demonstration.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Moralizing on the deceptiveness of appearances, Crimmins fortified himself with another slab of cut-plug.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
And then he laughed at the deceptiveness and the wild humor of his own speech.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop